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  • The AI Critic

    The AI Critic

    A method for using AI to analyze and critique academic work.
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    One thing I’m consistently surprised by is how behind the faculty are when it comes to understanding AI and its implications … What they think AI can and cannot do…

  • The University of Minnesota Calls ‘Whiteness’ a Public Health Threat

    The University of Minnesota Calls ‘Whiteness’ a Public Health Threat

    Research that pathologizes white Americans seems to be a permanent feature of higher education.

    A group of researchers affiliated with the University of Minnesota (U of M) has released a report claiming that the United States is afflicted by a pervasive “culture of Whiteness,”…

  • FIRE Is Wrong About Public Syllabi

    FIRE Is Wrong About Public Syllabi

    State mandates requiring public universities to post syllabi publicly offer much to gain and little to lose.

    The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is a stalwart defender of free speech for all. I’m close to a free speech absolutist myself, and therefore rarely disagree with…

  • Teaching the Past in an Age of Illiteracy

    Teaching the Past in an Age of Illiteracy

    A case deeper reading and shared standards.

    Any sensible humanities program must explore the past. But the problem is that today’s students can no longer read long texts. Yet the past was a written culture; documents and…

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  • The AI Critic

    The AI Critic

    A method for using AI to analyze and critique academic work.
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    That’s Not Good

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    Running Blind

    Institutions—especially higher education—are adopting artificial intelligence without a clear sense of direction.
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    Good Writing Is Cooked

    Allegations of AI use are discouraging good writing.

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